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Submissions, Letters and Presentations
Recfishwest endeavours to respond to all issues and developments that may impact upon recreational fishing, and to prepare letters or submissions or presentations which cover Recfishwest's position on important topics.
Submissions are drafted by staff, or by individual Board members, and are approved by the Recfishwest Executive or Board.
Even though considerable time, research and effort is spent in preparing many of these submissions, they are not locked in, except that many have external deadlines and the other parties may have already completed their action on the topic.
Supplementary letters or submissions may be prepared to cover any changes in the circumstances of the topic or in response to new information where the topic is still open for decisions by other parties.
All members of the fishing public with an interest in any of the Recfishwest letters or submissions are encouraged to contact us with any questions they would like to have answered about these, or with any points they believe should be included or considered in a submission or excluded from a submission.
All members of the fishing public are welcome to ask for the preparation or the review of Recfishwest submissions about any topic on fish, fishing or the marine and freshwater environment which affects recreational fishing now or in the future.
Latest submissions, letters and presentations
21 November 2009
Recreation Activities within Public Drinking Water Source Areas
10 November 2009
Will there be fishing in the future? Presentation by Recfishwest's Executive Director, Frank Prokop
1 October 2009
Response to proposed further restrictions on recreational rock lobster fishing
25 September 2009
Response to proposed extension of Peel-Harvey crab closure
15 September 2009
Recfishwest seeks Minister's support for fisheries management package
See the complete list of submissions, letters and presentations in date order for more.
Management of Recreational Demersal Fishing
15 September 2009
Recfishwest seeks Minister's support for fisheries management package
24 April 2008
Final submission on "Recommended changes to recreational fishing of vulnerable iconic fish", and "Strategy for Managing the Recreational Catch of Demersal Scalefish in the West Coast Bioregion" FMP228
11 April 2008
Draft of submission on "Recommended changes to recreational fishing of vulnerable iconic fish", and "Strategy for Managing the Recreational Catch of Demersal Scalefish in the West Coast Bioregion: FMP228 - for comments
(Replaced by Final submission )
15 November 2007
Submission on Fisheries Management Paper No. 225 Managing the Recreational
Catch of Demersal Scalefish on the West Coast - Future Management Scenarios for Community Consideration
26 October 2007
Draft of submission on Fisheries Management Paper No. 225 Managing the Recreational
Catch of Demersal Scalefish on the West Coast - Future Management Scenarios for Community Consideration (Replaced by Final submission )
Integrated Fisheries Management
25 September 2009
Response to proposed extension of Peel-Harvey crab closure
26 January 2009
Recfishwest submission Integrated Fisheries Management Allocation Report - Roe's Abalone Resource - Perth Metropolitan Region
22 June 2007
Recfishwest Submission to Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) with respect to an assessment
framework for fisheries inter-sectoral allocation models
28 February 2007
Outcomes of the Wetline Review;
The Minister for Fisheries' proposed decisions for the future
management of the West Coast and Gascoyne commercial 'wetline'
fisheries (FMP 221).
9 February 2007
Recfishwest Submission to Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Committee (IFAAC) and to Fisheries Management
Paper No 214 "Integrated Fisheries Management Draft Allocation
Report Roe's Abalone - Perth metropolitan region"
4 April 2006
Supplementary Submission to
Integrated Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) with
respect to Integrated Fisheries Management of the Western Rock
Lobster Resource"
23 March 2006
Proposed arrangements
for the managed West Coast and Gascoyne commercial "wetline"
fisheries (originally Fisheries Management Papers 189, 190and
191, and now 205, 206 and 207)
15 February 2006
Integrated Fisheries
Management "Speak up or miss out" (RFW article BWA)
3 November 2005
Submission to the Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) and to Fisheries
Management Paper No 204 "Integrated Fisheries Management
Report Abalone Resource
16 May 2005
Submission to Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Committee (IFAAC) and to Fisheries Management
Paper No 192 "Integrated Fisheries Management Report Western
Rock Lobster Resource"
18 April 2005
Fisheries Management Paper
No 191 "Access and Allocation Arrangements for the Commercial
'Wetline' Fisheries
Marine Parks, Marine Reserves and Marine Protected Areas
22 December 2008
Submission to the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
22 December 2006
Indicative Management Plan for
the Proposed Geographe Bay/Leeuwin-Naturaliste/Hardy Inlet Marine
Park
4 December 2006
Proposed Walpole Nornalup
Inlets Marine Park IMP 2006-2016
2 November 2006
Shoalwater Islands Marine
Park Draft Management Plan 2006
17 July 2006
Rottnest Island Marine Management
Strategy
10 March 2006
Proposed Rottnest
Island Sanctuary Zones
26 June 2005
Indicative Management Plan
for the Proposed Dampier Archipelago Marine Park and Cape Preston
Marine Management Area 2005
29 October 2004
Ningaloo Marine Park Draft
Management Plan
10 September 2004
Letter to the Premier
- Concern over Consultative Processes for Marine Parks
24 September 2002
Draft Rottnest Island Management Plan 2002 - 2007
8 December 2006
Cockburn Sound Crab
Closure to Recreational Fishing
7 December 2005
Letter to the Proponents
of the Outer Harbour Project - Cockburn Sound
3 February 2005
Proposals for Community
Discussion on the Future Management of Pink Snapper Fishing
in Cockburn Sound and Surrounding Waters
7 January 2005
RFW Draft Comments
on Cockburn Sound pink snapper closure
25 September 2009
Response to proposed extension of Peel-Harvey crab closure
7 July 2008
Shark Bay Terrestrial Reserves and Proposed Reserve Additions - Draft Management Plan 2007
25 November 2007
Stokes
Inlet Draft Management Plan, November 2007
31 July 2007
Proposed Closure of Part
of Geographe Bay to Commercial Fishing
22 June 2007
Management of the Houtman Abrolhos System
- A Draft Review 2007-2017
28 February 2007
Outcomes of the Wetline Review;
The Minister for Fisheries' proposed decisions for the future
management of the West Coast and Gascoyne commercial 'wetline'
fisheries (FMP 221).
6 February 2007
A Scoping Paper: Matters
Relevant to the Development of a Sustainable Allocation and
Growout Model for Western Rock Lobster Pueruli, Fisheries Management
Paper 219
24 July 2006
Draft By-Catch
Action Plan for the Pilbara Fish Trawl Fishery
24 July 2006
Proposed amendments
to the Fish Resources Management Act 1994
17 July 2006
Rottnest Island Marine Management
Strategy
13 March 2006
Mermaid Reef Marine National
Nature Reserve Management Plan 2007-2014
1 May 2005
Fisheries Management Paper
No 189 "Proposed Management Arrangements for the Gascoyne
Commercial 'Wetline' Fishery"
26 April 2005
Fisheries Management Paper
No 190 "Proposed Management Arrangements for the West Coast
Commercial 'Wetline' Fishery"
18 April 2005
Discussion Paper:
Towards a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for Western Australia
21 November 2009
Recreation Activities within Public Drinking Water Source Areas
28 February 2006
A strategic approach to the
management of ornamental fish in Australia - Consultation Draft
5 January 2006
Prohibition on the construction
of dams on winter creeks
8 December 2005
Logue Brook Dam Recreational
Fishing Access
29 August 2005
Shannon and D'Entrecasteaux
National Park draft management plan
3 March 2009
Fremantle Port Inner Harbour and channel deepening, reclamation at Rous Head
22 August 2006
Fremantle Ports Outer
Harbour Project - Draft Recommendation Report on Preferred Option
13 January 2006
Proposed Tourism
Development at Long Island, Houtman Abrolhos Islands, WA
13 December 2006
Letter congratulating
Minister McGowan on Swan River Initiatives
8 December 2006
Cockburn Sound Crab
Closure to Recreational Fishing
10 March 2006
Proposed Rottnest
Island Sanctuary Zones
15 February 2006
Integrated Fisheries
Management "Speak up or miss out" (RFW article BWA)
5 January 2006
Prohibition on the construction
of dams on winter creeks
16 December 2005
Protection of large shark
7 December 2005
Letter to the Proponents
of the Outer Harbour Project - Cockburn Sound
Complete list of submissions, letters and presentations in date order, 2009
21 November 2009
Recreation Activities within Public Drinking Water Source Areas
10 November 2009
Will there be fishing in the future? Presentation by Recfishwest's Executive Director, Frank Prokop
1 October 2009
Response to proposed further restrictions on recreational rock lobster fishing
25 September 2009
Response to proposed extension of Peel-Harvey crab closure
15 September 2009
Recfishwest seeks Minister's support for fisheries management package
3 March 2009
Fremantle Port Inner Harbour and channel deepening, reclamation at Rous Head
26 January 2009
Recfishwest submission Integrated Fisheries Management Allocation Report - Roe's Abalone Resource - Perth Metropolitan Region
12 January 2009
Submission on use of pot winches to lift recreational rock lobster pots
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2008
31 December 2008
Submission on Amendment of Regulation 19C, Navigable Waters Regulations 1958, dive flags for snorkelers
22 December 2008
Submission to the Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
7 July 2008
Shark Bay Terrestrial Reserves and Proposed Reserve Additions - Draft Management Plan 2007
24 April 2008
Final submission on "Recommended changes to recreational fishing of vulnerable iconic fish", and "Strategy for Managing the Recreational Catch of Demersal Scalefish in the West Coast Bioregion" FMP228
11 April 2008
Draft of submission on "Recommended changes to recreational fishing of vulnerable iconic fish", and "Strategy for Managing the Recreational Catch of Demersal Scalefish in the West Coast Bioregion" FMP228 - for comments (Replaced by Final submission )
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2007
25 November 2007
Stokes Inlet Draft Management Plan, November 2007
15 November 2007
Final submission on Fisheries Management Paper No. 225 Managing the Recreational
Catch of Demersal Scalefish on the West Coast - Future Management Scenarios for Community Consideration
26 October 2007
Draft of submission on Fisheries Management Paper No. 225 Managing the Recreational
Catch of Demersal Scalefish on the West Coast - Future Management Scenarios for Community Consideration (Replaced by Final submission )
31 July 2007
Proposed Closure of Part
of Geographe Bay to Commercial Fishing
22 June 2007
Recfishwest Submission to Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) with respect to an assessment
framework for fisheries inter-sectoral allocation models
22 June 2007
Management of the Houtman Abrolhos System
- A Draft Review 2007-2017
28 February 2007
Outcomes of the Wetline Review;
The Minister for Fisheries' proposed decisions for the future
management of the West Coast and Gascoyne commercial 'wetline'
fisheries (FMP 221).
16 February 2007
Proposal for a Protection
Zone over the SEA-ME-WE3 Submarine Cable off City Beach, Perth
16 February 2007
Proposed Amendments to the
Fish Resources Management Act 1994, Draft Report of the Ministerial
Review Committee, Fisheries Occasional Publications No. 38 Volume
1 and 2.
9 February 2007
Recfishwest Submission to Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Committee (IFAAC) and to Fisheries Management
Paper No 214 "Integrated Fisheries Management Draft Allocation
Report Roe's Abalone - Perth metropolitan region"
6 February 2007
A Scoping Paper: Matters
Relevant to the Development of a Sustainable Allocation and
Growout Model for Western Rock Lobster Pueruli, Fisheries Management
Paper 219
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2006
22 December 2006
Indicative Management
Plan for the Proposed Geographe Bay/Leeuwin-Naturaliste/Hardy
Inlet Marine Park
13 December 2006
Letter congratulating
Minister McGowan on Swan River Initiatives
8 December 2006
Cockburn Sound Crab
Closure to Recreational Fishing
4 December 2006
Proposed Walpole Nornalup
Inlets Marine Park IMP 2006-2016
2 November 2006
Shoalwater Islands Marine
Park Draft Management Plan 2006
15 September 2006
Burrup Peninsula
Proposed Conservation Reserve Draft Management Plan
22 August 2006
Fremantle Ports Outer
Harbour Project - Draft Recommendation Report on Preferred Option
24 July 2006
Proposed amendments
to the Fish Resources Management Act 1994
24 July 2006
Draft By-Catch
Action Plan for the Pilbara Fish Trawl Fishery
17 July 2006
Rottnest Island Marine Management
Strategy
4 April 2006
Cape Peron Tourist Precinct Project
- Strategic Environmental Review
4 April 2006
Supplementary Submission to
Integrated Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) with
respect to Integrated Fisheries Management of the Western Rock
Lobster Resource"
23 March 2006
Proposed arrangements
for the managed West Coast and Gascoyne commercial "wetline"
fisheries (originally Fisheries Management Papers 189, 190and
191, and now 205, 206 and 207)
13 March 2006
Mermaid Reef Marine National
Nature Reserve Management Plan 2007-2014
10 March 2006
Proposed Rottnest
Island Sanctuary Zones
15 February 2006
Integrated Fisheries
Management "Speak up or miss out" (RFW article BWA)
28 February 2006
A strategic approach to the
management of ornamental fish in Australia - Consultation Draft
13 January 2006
Proposed Tourism
Development at Long Island, Houtman Abrolhos Islands, WA
8 December 2005
Logue Brook Dam Recreational
Fishing Access
5 January 2006
Prohibition on the construction
of dams on winter creeks
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2005
19 December 2005
A Quality Future
for Recreational Marron Fishery
16 December 2005
Protection of large shark
16 December 2005
Management of
the Proposed South Coast Trawl Fishery (FMP 199)
7 December 2005
Letter to the Proponents
of the Outer Harbour Project - Cockburn Sound
3 November 2005
Submission to the Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Advisory Committee (IFAAC) and to Fisheries
Management Paper No 204 "Integrated Fisheries Management
Report Abalone Resource
29 August 2005
Shannon and D'Entrecasteaux
National Park draft management plan
20 June 2005
Indicative Management Plan
for the Proposed Dampier Archipelago Marine Park and Cape Preston
Marine Management Area 2005
16 May 2005
Submission to Integrated
Fisheries Allocation Committee (IFAC) and to Fisheries Management
Paper No 192 "Integrated Fisheries Management Report Western
Rock Lobster Resource"
1 May 2005
Fisheries Management Paper
No 189 "Proposed Management Arrangements for the Gascoyne
Commercial 'Wetline' Fishery"
26 April 2005
Fisheries Management Paper
No 190 "Proposed Management Arrangements for the West Coast
Commercial 'Wetline' Fishery"
18 April 2005
Discussion Paper:
Towards a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy for Western Australia
18 April 2005
Fisheries Management Paper
No 191 "Access and Allocation Arrangements for the Commercial
'Wetline' Fisheries
6 April 2005
Management of the Proposed
South West Beach seine Fishery, Management Discussion Paper,
Fisheries Management paper 184
3 February 2005
Proposals for Community Discussion on
the Future Management of Pink Snapper Fishing in Cockburn Sound and Surrounding
Waters
7 January 2005
RFW Draft Comments on Cockburn Sound
pink snapper closure
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2004
29 October 2004
Ningaloo Marine Park Draft Management Plan
14 September 2004
Draft Regional Natural Resource Management
Strategy for Northern Agricultural Region of Western Australia
10 September 2004
Letter to the Premier - Concern
over Consultative Processes for Marine Parks
23 September 2004
Fisheries Management Paper 180; Future Management
Arrangements for Western Australia's Temperate Shark Fisheries
16 August 2004
South West Regional Strategy for Natural Resource
Management
9 August 2004
South Coast Regional Strategy for Natural Resource
Management
29 June 2004
Bioregional Marine Planning in Western Australia
22 June 2004
Fisheries Management Paper 178 - Draft
Plan of Management for the Kalbarri Blue Holes Fish Habitat Protection Area
28 May 2004
Indicative Management Plan for the proposed
Montebello/Barrow Island MCRs
3 May 2004
Submission to Fisheries Management Paper NO 169
- Hardy Inlet Estuarine Fishery Management Issues and Options
20 April 2004
Submission to Fisheries Management Paper
174: The Translocation of Golden Perch, Murray Cod and Australian Bass, into and
within Western Australia, for the Purposes of Recreational Stocking, Domestic
Stocking and Commercial and Non-Commercial Aquaculture
16 April 2004
Rowley Shoals Marine Park Draft Management Plan
and Indicative Management Plan for Extensions to the Existing Marine Park 2004
16 April 2004
Developing a Zoning Plan for the Proposed Capes Marine
Park
20 February 2004
Fisheries Statutory Management Authority
Inquiry Draft Report of November 2003
19 February 2004
CALM Policy Statement 18 - Recreation, Tourism
and Visitor Services
4 February 2004
The Proposed Zoning Scheme for Ningaloo
Marine Park & the Proposed Additions to the Marine Conservation Reserve
27 January 2004
Access Working Group Recommendations to
the Gascoyne Muster II
7 January 2004
Busselton Jetty Exclusion Zone and
Underwater Observatory
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2003
12 December 2003
Proposed Dampier Archipelago/Cape Preston Marine
Conservation Reserve Zoning Scheme 4th & Final
24 November 2003
Proposed Demolition of the Carnarvon
Prawning Jetty
4 November 2003
Preservation of Learmonth Jetty
11 September 2003
Aboriginal Fishing Strategy
13 August 2003
The Amended Draft Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery
(WTBF) Management Plan
3 June 2003
Review of Legislative Arrangements in the Aquaculture
Industry
3 June 2003
Busselton Jetty Fish Habitat Protection Area
23 May 2003
Fisheries Statutory Management Authority
Inquiry
25 March 2003
Swan River Crabbing
25 February 2003
Shoalwater Islands Marine Park
14 February 2003
A Biodiversity Conservation Act for
Western Australia - Consultation Paper
14 February 2003
The Western Australian State Sustainability
Strategy: Consultation Draft
6 February 2003
Proposed Management Arrangements for
the Joint Authority Northern Shark Fishery
20 January 2003
The review of the Marine Parks and Reserves Authority,
the Marine Parks and Reserves Scientific Advisory Committee and the Conservation
Commission of Western Australia
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2002
12 December 2002
Mandurah Estuarine Interim Management Arrangements
5 December 2002
James Point Stage One Port, Kwinana (Assessment
No 1353)- Appeal
29 November 2002
Woodman Point Regional Park Draft Management
Plan 2002-2012
24 September 2002
Draft Rottnest Island Management Plan 2002 - 2007
13 August 2002
Coastal Planning Review
13 August 2002
Shark National plan of Action
12 July 2002
Lancelin Defence Training Area submission
27 June 2002
Draft Bycatch Action Plan for the Shark Bay Prawn
Managed Fishery
16 July 2002
Swan River Estuarine Fishery Interim Management
Arrangements
30 May 2002
Commercial HIsmelt Plant - Kwinana
20 May 2002
Dredging of Denham Channel
26 April 2002
Dampier submission (still underway)
15 April 2002
Carnac Island
28 March 2002
Cockburn Sound EPP and EMP
26 February 2002
Turquoise Coast
19 February 2002
Beeliar park
30 January 2002
Shoalwater
Submissions, letters and presentations during 2001 and earlier
20 December 2001
Mackerel 2nd round submission
10 December 2001
Cockburn Sound Shellsand Dredging Appeal
5 December 2001
West Coast and Gascoyne Reviews
22 November 2001
Ningaloo Marine Park Extension
13 July 2001
Proposed Montebello/Barrow Islands Marine Conservation
Reserve
14 June 2001
James Point and Sheeploading facility PER
28 May 2001
Cottesloe FHPA Fish Habitat Protection Area
28 February 2001
Cockburn Cement ERMP
27 December 2000
Estuarine + Embayment Fisheries
14 December 2000
Jurien Bay Marine Park
16 October 2000
Resource Sharing
2 May 2000
Wetfish Review Initial Response
11 February 2000
Charter Boat Operators
Policies for 2008 WA State Election
Recfishwest Questions for WA State Election 2008
The following response was received before the election on 6 September 2008:-
Greens WA response fax received 4 September 2008.
The following were found through searches of the Internet.
"Protect the future of our iconic marine environment" is part of Labor's 2008 Plan for Western Australia's environmental icons 
(link opens in a new window) has been found on the Party's website and is relevant to the Marine Park Planning part of Recfishwest's 2008 policy.
The Liberal Party's 2008 "Recreational Fishing and Boating policy" (link opens in a new window) has been found on the Party's website and covers very few topics from the above Recfishwest policy.
Family First Party's 2008 "Recreation rights and support (for) the recreational industry" (link opens in a new window)
Policies for 2005 WA State Election
• Recfishwest Questions for WA State Election 2005
• Premier of Western Australia response to Recfishwest's 2005 Election Policy questions
• Australian
Labor Party 2005 Policy Document "Labor's Plan for Fisheries" stating:-
| What the Government has done for:- | ||
| • Recreational Fishing | • Research | |
| • Integrated Fisheries Management | • Other Fisheries Initiatives | |
| What the Government will do for:- | ||
| • Recreational Fishing | • Scientific Research | |
| • Integrated Fisheries Management | • Department of Fisheries | |
| • Fishing and Aquatic Charters | • Conservation of fish habitats and aquatic biodiversity | |
| • Commercial Fishing | • Aquaculture | |
| • Indigenous Fishing | • Pearling | |
• Minister for the Environment part response to Recfishwest's 2005 Election Policy questions
• Minister for Fisheries Media Statement Support for Fishing Education
• WA Liberal/National Coalition 2005 position statement on Fisheries
This page last updated 21 November 2009.
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